An Orleans Parish Criminal District Court judge is upset with the New Orleans Police Department on how it handled a crime that happened at her home in the French Quarter.

On the bench at Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, Judge Laurie White has a no nonsense approach. But early Sunday morning, she was scared.

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"It was crazy frightening," said White.

That's because as her husband returned to their French Quarter home about 6 a.m. in the 700 block of Gov. Nicholls Street after walking their dogs and an assailant shoved him through the fence and attacked him.

"My husband goes in and tells the guy to get out,” White said. “The guy says, ‘No.’ and my husband says, ‘You are not going in there.’ The guy pushes in the door, and the guy turns and hit him then knock over the table and chairs, and my husband calls out to me because I'm in the bedroom asleep."

White said she ran to see what was happening.

"The guy my husband is holding jumps up and runs and then (the assailant) runs,” White said.

That's when White said a teenager, who witnessed the entire incident, acted.

"He saw him come into our yard, and he saw him get into the fight with my husband, and he came in to tell him I've called the cops.

White identified the teenager as Tyron Perry, and said he attends a high school in the area.

"The young man came back and said, ‘I've caught him. I've caught him.’ The young man is a high school student here in town and he runs track, and he ran and ran and caught the guy to be arrested,” White said.

The judge said she was thankful he did what he did.

"I want him to be recognized and acknowledged or doing the right thing,” White said.

The frustrating part for White is how police charged the assailant, who was identified as Joshua Stemle, with criminal trespassing and simply battery – both misdemeanor and municipal offenses. Stemle was cited on the offenses.

White said officers told her the man was "just drunk.”

"When the police are not listening to citizens in the community, and they are making the interpretation of what someone's intent was, and if they were or weren't going to go into my house, I'm very upset about it,” White said.

The New Orleans Police Department said the matter is still under investigation and the charges could be upgraded.